Internally at AdaCore, we recently started testing a 64-bit gdb
debugging 32-bit processes. This failed with gdb head, but not with
gdb 11.
The tests fail like this:
Starting program: [...].exe
warning: Could not load shared library symbols for WOW64_IMAGE_SECTION.
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warning: Could not load shared library symbols for WOW64_IMAGE_SECTION.
Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?
warning: Could not load shared library symbols for NOT_AN_IMAGE.
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warning: Could not load shared library symbols for NOT_AN_IMAGE.
Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?
After some debugging and bisecting, to my surprise the bug was
introduced by commit
183be222 ("gdb, gdbserver: make target_waitstatus
safe").
The problem occurs in handle_exception. Previously the code did:
- ourstatus->kind = TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED;
[...]
case EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT:
[...]
- ourstatus->kind = TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS;
[...]
/* FALLTHROUGH */
case STATUS_WX86_BREAKPOINT:
DEBUG_EXCEPTION_SIMPLE ("EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT");
- ourstatus->value.sig = GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP;
[...]
- last_sig = ourstatus->value.sig;
However, in the new code, the fallthrough case does:
+ ourstatus->set_stopped (GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP);
... which changes the 'kind' in 'ourstatus' after falling through.
This patch rearranges the 'last_sig' setting to more closely match
what was done before (this is probably not strictly needed but also
seemed harmless), and removes the fall-through in the
'ignore_first_breakpoint' case when __x86_64__ is defined.
thread_rec (ptid_t (current_event.dwProcessId, current_event.dwThreadId, 0),
DONT_SUSPEND);
+ last_sig = GDB_SIGNAL_0;
+
switch (code)
{
case EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION:
on startup, first a BREAKPOINT for the 64bit ntdll.dll,
then a WX86_BREAKPOINT for the 32bit ntdll.dll.
Here we only care about the WX86_BREAKPOINT's. */
+ DEBUG_EXCEPTION_SIMPLE ("EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT - ignore_first_breakpoint");
ourstatus->set_spurious ();
ignore_first_breakpoint = false;
+ break;
}
else if (wow64_process)
{
gdb lets the target process continue.
So handle it as SIGINT instead, then the target is stopped
unconditionally. */
- DEBUG_EXCEPTION_SIMPLE ("EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT");
+ DEBUG_EXCEPTION_SIMPLE ("EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT - wow64_process");
rec->ExceptionCode = DBG_CONTROL_C;
ourstatus->set_stopped (GDB_SIGNAL_INT);
break;